Improvement in reaping-machines



yexactdescription thereof, reference being had l combination and arrangement of a self-acting 'end of the platform to the top of the main UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VELOOME SPRAGUE, OF FARNHAM, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND DANL. E. BARKER AND WM. VAN DUZER, OF ANGOLA, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN REAPING-MACHINES.

Specification forming` part of Letters Patent No. 33502I, dated August (i, 1861.

To all whom it may concern: j

-Be it known that I, WELCOME SPRAGUE, of Farnham, Erie county, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reaping-Machines; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure I is a front elevation of my improved machine, and Fig. Il is a plan of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in the rake for removing the cut grain from the platform, a binders stand and table, and an endless apron for carrying the grain to the binder, so that the grainmay be bound by hand upon the machine.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

A represents the main frame of the machine.

B represents the driving-wheel, placed on the outside of the main frame. f

` C represents the driving-wheel shaft, having` bearings in the side pieces of the mainframe.

D represents the iinger-bar to which the guard-fingers d are connected. The bar is connected to the front of the machine, as represented.

E lrepresents the cutter-bar.

F represents a bevel spur-wheel keyed on-. to the main driving-shaft C, and gearing in with the bevelwheel G, whose shaft has j ournal-bearings in the standards I and I.4

.I is a spur-wheel upon the shaft of the bevel-wheel G, which gears with a pinion on the crank-shaft K, which gives motion through the connecting-rod Z to the critters.

L represents the grain-platform, with a divider, M, and carrying-wheel N.

o is an inclined plane rising from the inner frame and the level of the endless apron P.

l? is an endless apron lying adjacent and parallel to the inner side piece of the main frame, above and out ofthe way of the gearing, and revolving upon the shafts Q and Q.

R is a binding-table placed at the side of the apron.

S is a pulley 'on the inner end of the main driving-shaft O, from which motion is given to the endless apron by the belt S and pulley S2 upon the end of the shaft Q.

T represents a rake having a long handle, T', the end of which is hinged to the longer arm of the lever U.

U is a lever, which has a fulcrum upon the side .piece of the main frame, as shown at U.

V is a connecting-rod connecting the lower end of the shorter arm of the lever with thc wrist o', projecting from the face of the spurf wheel J, and by which a vibratory motion is given to the lever, which gives the proper motion to the rake.

W is a post projecting upward from the rear outside corner of the platform.

W is a bar, one end of which is hinged to the upper end of the post, as shown atwl, the other resting upon the stationary cam-face X, bolted to the inclined plane O.

X is a friction-pulley upon the rear end of the rake.

Y is a caster -wheel which supports the weight of the binder and the rear of the frame.

Operation: rlhe working of the gearing and cutting apparatus is too well-known' to need further mention. The rake, being put in motion, will slide from the outside inward,

carrying the grain upon the platform with it and up the inclined plane O, and deposit it upon the apron l?, the guard Z preventing it from passing over and off from the apron. As the rake passes up the inclined plane the friction-wheel X will ride upon the cam-face X, and, striking the under side of the bar W', raise it, the bar falling again as soon as the wheel passes its end. rlhe lever U will by thistime have reached the extent of its vibration in that direction, and as it moves back the friction-wheel X will roll upon the' top of the bar, carrying the rake above the grain 'falling upon the platform until it reaches the opposite side of the apron for an additional grain to the binder7 so that the grain may be binder to stand upon7 should it be necessary. bound by hand upon the Ina-chine, substan- Vhet I Claim istially as herein set forth.

The combination and arrangement of the self-meting rake T, for removing the out grain l Witnesses: from the platform, a binders stand .and table XV. H. FoRBUsn, R, and an endless apron7 P, for carrying the ALEX. KOCHBE.

WELCOME srnAGUn. 

